5 Ways Stores Kept Up With (Or Even Beat) The Web in 2012

From one point of view, you can look at physical retail’s efforts to compete with e-commerce as a mad scramble.  Or you can see the attempts as innovation, which ultimately benefits consumers (or at least, entertains them).  For our part, we’re partial to the second viewpoint, and 2012 provided no shortage of ideas to back that up:

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